Kristin Henning

Kristin Henning is the Agnes N. Williams Research Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic at Georgetown. Henning was formerly the Lead Attorney for the Juvenile Unit of the DC Public Defender Service and worked closely with the Juvenile Indigent Defense Action Network to develop and co-author the Juvenile Training Immersion Program, a national training curriculum for juvenile defenders.

Henning is the Director of the Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center and is the immediate past President of the Board of Directors for the Center for Children’s Law and Policy. She has served as an expert consultant to the US Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and an investigator in several state assessments of the access to counsel for accused juveniles.

Professor Henning has written extensively on race, adolescence, and juvenile justice appears in journals such as the Cornell Law Review, California Law Review, and NYU Law Review and in books such as POLICING THE BLACK MAN (Random House, 2017) and PUNISHMENT IN POPULAR CULTURE (NYU Press 2015). She is also currently the Reporter for the ABA Task Force on Standards for Dual-jurisdiction Youth, was elected to the American Law Institute in 2015, and serves as an Adviser to ALI’s Restatement on Children and the Law. Henning received her B.A. from Duke and J.D. from Yale and has received several awards, including the 2015 Award for Youth Justice from the DC Lawyers for Youth and 2013 Robert E. Shepherd, Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense by the National Juvenile Defender Center.